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Benjamin Haydon

Satan is to be punished eternally in the end, but for a while he triumphs.
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Devil Satan Triumph
All government is an evil, but, of the two form’s of that evil, democracy or monarchy, the sounder is monarchy; the more able to do its will, democracy.
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Evil Government Monarchy Two
It is better to make friends than adversaries of a conquered race.
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Adversaries Friends Race
Newton’s health, and confusion to mathematics.
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Confusion Mathematics Newton
When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for.
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Better Get Men Quality
Do your duty, and don’t swerve from it. Do that which your conscience tells you to be right, and leave the consequences to God.
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Conscience Duty Swerve
If men would only take the chances of doing right because it is right, instead of the immediate certainty of the advantage of doing wrong, how much happier would their lives be.
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Certainty Chance Chances Immediate Life Men
Mistrusts sometimes come over one’s mind of the justice of God. But let a real misery come again, and to whom do we fly? To whom do we instinctively and immediately look up?
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God Justice Real
Danger is the very basis of superstition. It produces a searching after help supernaturally when human means are no longer supposed to be available.
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Helping Mean Superstition
Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.
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Age Reputation Suffering
The greatest geniuses have always attributed everything to God, as if conscious of being possessed of a spark of His divinity.
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Divinity Genius Sparks
Men of genius are often considered superstitious, but the fact is, the fineness of their nerve renders them more alive to the supernatural than ordinary men.
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Men Nerves Ordinary
Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.
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Mind Prejudice Serious
Genius in poverty is never feared, because nature, though liberal in her gifts in one instance, is forgetful in another.
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Genius Never Fear Poverty
There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.
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Evil Human Nature Propensity
How difficult it is to get men to believe that any other man can or does act from disinterestedness!
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Believe Disinterestedness Men

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